The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer and other groups, represented by attorneys at the Bioethics Defense Fund, filed an amicus brief (as "friends" of the court).[1] Karen Malec, the Coalition's president, said:

"We contest the Obama administration's absurd claim that use of contraceptive steroids constitutes women's 'preventative' healthcare. In 2005, the World Health Organization classified the birth control pill as a Group 1 cancer-causing substance for cancers of the breast, liver and cervix. [2,3]

"Although the WHO said the Pill reduces risk for cancers of the endometrium and ovaries, the number of breast cancer cases every year in the U.S. is four times greater than the number of cases of ovarian and endometrial cancers combined." [4]

Supreme Court justices will learn about these additional health risks as they read the brief: